Ezekiel 43:16

And the hearth was twelve cubits in length by twelve cubits in width, foursquare, with equal sides.

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In The King James Version

And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

In Context

15Now the hearth itself was four cubits. And from the hearth going upward, there were four horns.

17And the rim was fourteen cubits in length, by fourteen cubits in width, at its four corners. And the crown all around it was one half cubit, and its bend was one cubit all around. And its steps turned toward the east.

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Cross References

Exodus 27:1“You shall also make an altar of setim wood, which will have five cubits in length, and the same in width, that is, four equal sides, and three cubits in height.

2 Chronicles 4:1Also, he made a brass altar of twenty cubits in length, and of twenty cubits in width, and of ten cubits in height,

Isaiah 29:1Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city against which David fought: year has been added to year, the solemnities have unfolded.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 43:14-27

The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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